This week, I’m talking with Julie Gilbert Pollard. In the conversation you’ll learn Pollard's favorite way to make her paintings stronger, you’ll get clarity on warms and cools and discover a way to think through where you can improve as an artist.
Learn more about Pollard here:
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Pollard’s “4-step sketch” (click here to download) outlined and illustrated in the attached article.
In the interview, Pollard mentions two books:
Frank Webb’s “Strengthen Your Paintings With Dynamic Composition”
Greg Albert’s “The Simple Secret to Better Painting”
In the show we talk about:
:57 How Julie Gilbert Pollard got started in art
1:36 Taking painting seriously
1:59 Book writing an articles got started
3:09 Working through beginner’s frustrations of vision not matching what you produce
4:37 How watercolor is different than other media
5:36 References
7:08 Next after finding a reference
8:47 Working towards darks with acrylic underpinnings
9:34 Having washes move dried paint
10:49 Yupo
11:26 Basics of watercolor
15:29 Using this list to help you get better
17:51 Four step sketch- Finding your biggest shape
19:58 Four step sketch - steps 2-4
25:13 - light mid to dark
26:33 The magic of lowering our expectations
29:01 Bringing in techniques
31:05 Biggest color challenge
32:37 Mud
35:34 Where does someone start with color
38:26 Warm and cool
39:13 Having a color wheel with you
40:46 How does someone get stronger with color?
43:29 Not getting bright colors
44:12 How Julie Gilbert Pollard approaches color
44:57 Color harmony
45:26 Analyzing work that didn’t go well
46:24 The importance of critique
47:38 Good reference
48:55 Where does someone start with composition
50:49 Makin pathways
51:43 How does thinking about composition changes
52:26 The importance of simplifying things
53:39 How to get good at painting
55:34 How to analyze work after finishing a piece?
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